Republican Strategist: “John Edwards is the One that Scares Me the Most”

Republicans see Democratic candidate John Edwards as the greatest threat in the 2008 presidential election according to Republican strategist, John Feehery, who was a top aide to former Speaker of the U.S. House Dennis Hastert.

When MSNBC host Tim Russert asked Feehery to assess the Democratic race for President, Feehery probably surprised many viewers by saying, “I think we (Republicans) would be very comfortable with either Hillary or Obama (as the Democratic Presidential nominee).”

“I think the one that scares me the most is Edwards,” Feehery said. Continuing Feehery said, “Edwards is the one that scares me the most--and that’s because he's a Southern Democrat and Southern Democrats are the ones that usually win.”

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Feehery’s perceptions were also strongly supported by Tuesday’s CNN poll that found that John Edwards was the only Democratic Presidential candidate to defeat all four Republican challengers in a head-to-head poll conducted for CNN, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation.

Story Quote: “Edwards performs best against each of the leading Republicans. In addition to beating Huckabee by 25 percent and McCain by 8 percent, the North Carolina Democrat beats Romney by 22 percentage points (59 percent to 37 percent).”

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Here’s a chart of the relative performances of the Democratic candidates against the Republican Candidates:

Steve Corrick is an investor/developer of real estate, biomass-based renewable energy and soil technologies, and a long-time fighter for paper-ballot-based elections and for sustainable use and renewal of the world's bioresources.